On the 10th of October, the Queensland University Libraries Office of Cooperation (QULOC) hosted a seminar at the Garden’s Point campus of Queensland University of Technology. The seminar was organised by the ICT Working Party and featured presentations, demonstrations and hands-on sessions focused on social software.
Despite a stormy Brisbane morning there was a full-house of attendees, many with umbrellas. The Working Party is sharing most of the presentations with the wider community on a blog called Librarian Too. You can use the commenting feature on the blog to ask a question of the presenters.
Topics included wikis, social networking, social bookmarking and virtual worlds. One presenter, Andrew Bennett from UQ, was asked “What if our SOE went web 2.0?” and came up with a great presentation that considered how we might work if we used Google Docs or Zoho instead of our usual desktop-based office applications.
PS – just wanted to let you know, that I am currently the convenor of the QULOC ICT Working Party, and I was also a presenter on the day. But it is still worth checking out the presentations. Lint’s own Kathryn Greenhill also features…
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